OKMULGEE, Okla. – Baron Hoy, a 29-year-old Mvskoke citizen, is breaking new ground. Hoy serves as the Assistant City Attorney and the City Prosecutor for Newton, Kan. In this role he handles the prosecution of criminals under the city’s jurisdiction and also manages legal issues involving the city government.
Hoy is both the first African-American to serve in these positions as well as the first Mvskoke citizen to do so.
As Assistant City Attorney, he spends most of his time working in the City Attorney’s office. In particular, he works with the city’s planning commission on issues including zoning laws. He also works with artists who want to put up murals around the city and with businesses who want to come to the city.
“It’s a little bit of everything. We cover just about anything the city needs,” Hoy said.
During certain parts of the week, Hoy can also be found in the City Prosecutor’s office, covering anything from City Ordinance Violations to Misdemeanors. His work includes reviewing cases he receives from the Police Department and reviewing body camera footage.
“I want to make sure that all cases are handled in accordance with the law,” he said.
He also works on domestic violence cases, which he is passionate about, and has been ever since being named Haskell Brave while at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence. He won the title running on the platform of tackling domestic violence.
A lot of his present work to eradicate domestic violence involves working with social workers and the County District Attorney.
Hoy is very proud of both the work he has done and of his heritage.
“My family is originally from Oklahoma, and I have a lot of family in Henryetta. I’m very much into the arts and acting, but my interests sort of changed when I went to Haskell. I got really involved in politics and with other Indigenous people, and I eventually switched to law.”
Hoy attended Washburn University’s School of Law in Topeka, graduating in 2023, and passing the Uniform Bar Exam in 2024.
While attending Washburn University, he earned an externship with the U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Gwynne E. Birzer in Wichita.
He also served as tribal attorney for the Prairie Band of Potawatomi. Additionally, he was chosen as a student cohort at Stanford University and its Indigenous Economics Program under former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
His father, whom he described as a real blue collar worker, worked for Spirit Airlines and owned a car repair shop, while his mother, who was Mvskoke, worked as a social worker.
“She taught me to believe in myself and in a higher power. She actually went to Haskell and is one of the people who inspired me to go there.”
According to Hoy, they are what made him who he is today.
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Amazing and I’m so excited to see you in such a honorable position ✊🏽 My daughter who is also Muscogee Creek and African American is attending Haskell Indian Nations University. She was a freshman when Coke Brings Plenty went from Missing on Easter 2024 , to wanted for a dv on a yt female who cut his hair , & found murdered not even a week later in a wooded area . This has been a hard case for us and we still have no answers. Lawrence P.D never got the ring cam footage which is all over that apartment complex. She took a year off to heal and now she is going back in the fall . I’m a proud Muscogee Momma and know it’s more than possible that you aren’t a freedmen … How would you have went to Haskell since Our Freedmen was un enrolled in 1979? My daughter was accepted by CoCo , he was never one of those that had a colonizer mindset. Just know are ancestors are proud ✊🏽🪶
Amazing and I’m so excited to see you in such a honorable position ✊🏽 My daughter who is also Muscogee Creek and African American is attending Haskell Indian Nations University. She was a freshman when Cole Brings Plenty went from Missing on Easter 2024 , to wanted for a dv on a yt female who cut his hair , & found murdered not even a week later in a wooded area . This has been a hard case for us and we still have no answers. Lawrence P.D never got the ring cam footage which is all over that apartment complex. She took a year off to heal and now she is going back in the fall . I’m a proud Muscogee Momma and know it’s more than possible that you aren’t a freedmen … How would you have went to Haskell since Our Freedmen was un enrolled in 1979? My daughter was accepted by CoCo , he was never one of those that had a colonizer mindset. Just know are ancestors are proud ✊🏽🪶 #MMIPOKC
Amazing and I’m so excited to see you in such a honorable position ✊🏽 My daughter who is also Muscogee Creek and African American is attending Haskell Indian Nations University. She was a freshman when Cole Brings Plenty went from Missing on Easter 2024 , to wanted for a dv on a yt female who cut his hair , & found murdered not even a week later in a wooded area . This has been a hard case for us and we still have no answers. Lawrence P.D never got the ring cam footage which is all over that apartment complex. She took a year off to heal and now she is going back in the fall . I’m a proud Muscogee Momma and know it’s more than possible that you aren’t a freedmen … How would you have went to Haskell since Our Freedmen was un enrolled in 1979? My daughter was accepted by CoCo , he was never one of those that had a colonizer mindset. Just know OUR ancestors are proud ✊🏽🪶
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